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In message <20050125.100128.85358998.imp@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes:
>> We already have the type field in cdevsw, that's what FIODTYPE returns.
>
>Is there some way we could export that to userland without having to
>open the device?

devfs could relay it to devd along with the name.

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